August

Seniors in High School

• Welcome to your senior year! With all of your hard work, you have made it. Now is the time to set yourself up for being at the top of the heap. Approach it with a sense of accomplishment, fulfillment and dignity.

• Set up a strong academic schedule that will play to your successes. Colleges need to see a strong academic course load.

• Check online at collegeboard.com and act.org or in your school’s guidance office for this year’s SAT/ACT schedule. The first test dates are in October, so remember to register.

• Follow up with your teachers who have agreed to write your letters of recommendations. Please thank them for taking their personal time to help you.

Juniors in High School

• Welcome to your junior year! Make this a good year to improve your grades and to pull all of your hard work together.

• Your junior year is most important for colleges. They believe that you have matured academically and should have both a challenge and success. Colleges feel that your academic successes will predict your work at the college level.

• Look closely at your class schedule and make sure that you have balance and challenge. With the classes you have chosen, do you feel confident that you will make strong grades? Not only should you take the most challenging course load that you can handle, but you should also take what interests you.

Julie Bruner, M.Ed., is the author of “Getting My Tail Into College,” a college planner for high school juniors and seniors. Formerly a college counselor at Maggie Walker Governor’s School and now at Trinity, she can be contacted at www.thecollegeplanners.com.

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